By my calculations, at the end of December 2003, there were 4310
packages in the NetBSD Packages Collection, up from 4170 the previous
month, a rise of only 140. We also tagged a new branch for pkgsrc,
which is being actively maintained - the branch is called
"pkgsrc-2003Q4". As the name implies, we will be branching pkgsrc on
a regular basis from now on, and maintaining the branch.

We had previously cut pkgsrc releases to coincide with NetBSD
releases, and for some other events, but pkgsrc-2003Q4 can be seen
as the first branch where pkgsrc was really its own entity. It can be
checked out with the "pkgsrc-2003Q4" tag, and browsed at:

We keep a complete log of changes we have made to pkgsrc since its inception.
At the lowest level, pkgsrc-2003Q4 had 3059 pkgsrc entries, whilst 2016Q1
had 14311 pkgsrc entries. Due to different versions of some languages, like
python, perl, ruby and php, the number of packages is a much higher number.
For instance, 2003Q4 had 4310 packages, and 2016Q1 had 17154.
We have also provided a histogram of
pkgsrc activity from its inception until now.

To see how pkgsrc has spread across platforms, 2003Q4 supported 7 platforms,
2016Q1 supports 23 platforms.